| Graedon comes down firmly on the side of the luddites, but her vision of the future is less alarmist than alarmingly within reach. |
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| True believers dismiss this significant part of the population as Luddites. |
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| In the early 19th-century, a large number of English mechanics banded together to begin a group known as the Luddites. |
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| They are not Luddites or anti-developmentalist, and their sophisticated critiques rarely talk about monolithic neoliberal evils. |
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| They see barbaric, irrational isolationist Luddites bent on plunging an entire nation into darkness. |
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| And then dropping off in percentages, we have the late adopters and finally the Luddites, who still don't even have a VHS video player. |
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| It is worth remembering that the original Luddites of the early 19th century were not uneducated blockheads who didn't understand machines. |
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| She's no nostalgia merchant for the musical Luddites, and it's not just the eternal verities of soul music that Jones traffics in. |
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| Iain S Bruce mounts a spirited defence of the internet against the nouveau Luddites. |
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| A breathless enthusiast for the wired world, he writes well enough to take happy Luddites such as me along with him. |
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| Then there's the result of the French referendum on the European constitution, seen as thick-headed Luddites railing vainly against the modern world. |
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| Far from being atavistic, anti-progressive protectionists, Luddites were logical, rational people who saw financial ruin staring down the barrel at them. |
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| One of the points he touched on was how the design of mill buildings changed with the advent of the Luddites and machine-wreckers of the early nineteenth century. |
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| Of course, the historical Luddites were neither childish nor naive. |
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| Those Luddites opposite want to ignore what is happening in reality. |
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| Car historians have been tempted to interpret resistance to automobilism as anti-modernist, reactionary struggles by marginalised Luddites, fighting for a lost cause. |
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| These anti-sweatshop activists shouldn't simply be dismissed as Luddites. |
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| When people raise concerns about the headlong advance of science and technology they are inevitably ridiculed as Luddites who are trying to interfere with progress. |
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| Years of market reform in the 1980s and the 1990s have made this a very good-performing economy, but some Luddites in the House want to wind back that clock. |
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| The Luddites met at night on the moors surrounding industrial towns to practice drills and maneuvers. |
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| The Luddites and their supporters anonymously sent death threats to, and possibly attacked, magistrates and food merchants. |
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| At one time there were more British soldiers fighting the Luddites than there were fighting Napoleon on the Iberian Peninsula. |
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| While some of those charged were actual Luddites, many had no connection to the movement. |
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| These trials were certainly intended to act as show trials to deter other Luddites from continuing their activities. |
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| Ned Ludd, possibly born Edward Ludlam, is the person from whom, it is popularly claimed, the Luddites took their name. |
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| Well known protests movements such as the Luddites and the Chartists had hand loom weavers amongst their leaders. |
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| Luddites feared that the time spent learning the skills of their craft would go to waste as machines would replace their role in the industry. |
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| It is a misconception that the Luddites protested against the machinery itself in an attempt to halt progress of technology. |
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| The Luddites were not afraid of technology and did not attempt to eliminate technology out of fear. |
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| Luddites battled the British Army at Burton's Mill in Middleton and at Westhoughton Mill, both in Lancashire. |
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| About the same time that I was learning about Luddites, I also got one of the first personal stereos. |
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| For example, a group of English workers known as Luddites formed to protest against industrialisation and sometimes sabotaged factories. |
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| These attackers became known as Luddites, supposedly followers of Ned Ludd, a folklore figure. |
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| The Luddites rapidly gained popularity, and the British government took drastic measures, using the militia or army to protect industry. |
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| The Luddites were a group of English textile workers and weavers in the 19th century who destroyed weaving machinery as a form of protest. |
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| Lord Byron opposed this legislation, becoming one of the few prominent defenders of the Luddites after the treatment of the defendants at the York trials. |
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| Three Luddites, led by George Mellor, ambushed and assassinated mill owner William Horsfall of Ottiwells Mill in Marsden, West Yorkshire at Crosland Moor in Huddersfield. |
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| The British Army clashed with the Luddites on several occasions. |
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| The museum is about our heritage and our culture from the Romans to the Luddites, the Victorians to the nuclear age and its rooms and exhibits bring our history to life. |
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